Daily Tech News 17 December 2025

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Coupang - South Korea's equivalent to Amazon - got hacked. (WSJ) (archive site)

Initial disclosure indicated that 4500 customers were affected.

This number has since been updated to 34 million.
Speaking of which, Midjourney is alemwjsl. (Aadill Pickle)

Me: That's someone typing the local name for Midjourney on a CJKV keyboard with the language accidentally set to English.

Article: Uh... Yes. Korean.

Tech News

Is the Commodore 64 Ultimate any good? Yes. (Tom's Hardware)

It's an FPGA emulator rather than just software, so it's more precise, and it supports existing hardware like ROM cartridges and disk drives if you still have one in working order.

And it includes not a mere 64K of RAM but 128MB. (Of which you can attach 16MB as an expansion cartridge.)

And you can dial the speed up from 1MHz to 64MHz.

And it has modern niceties like HDMI, USB, Ethernet, and wifi.

And it has a high-quality mechanical keyboard.

$299, or $349 for the translucent Starlight edition, but that's about what a second-hand C64 will set you back these days once you get it working.
The US government has signed a deal with Korea Zinc to build a rare earth processing facility in Tennessee. (Tom's Hardware)

The company will be building a $6.6 billion facility to produce 540,000 tons of material per year, including gallium, germanium, and indium, none of which are rare earth elements.

Also, 540,000 tons of these metals would be a lot. Hundreds of times more than current global output. So someone is leaving something out somewhere.
Canada's postmaster-general or whatever he is Mark Carney has been criticised over his choice of British spellings in official documents as opposed to American ones. (The Guardian)

Canada is not a real country.
Texas has sued a bevy of TV makers including Sony, LG, Samsung, TCL, and Hisense for taking screenshots of what you are watching without your consent. (Bleeping Computer)

Good.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Agawhat?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 04:04 AM (Ia/+0)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:04 AM (RuTUS)

3 Way to go, Skip!

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:04 AM (RuTUS)

4 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:04 AM (Cjt/F)

5 >>>Initial disclosure indicated that 4500 customers were affected.
This number has since been updated to 34 million.

"More than 4500."

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:05 AM (RuTUS)

6 Good morning. I don't know about you, but 2025 fatigue has set in for me. I'm ready for a new round of terrible.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 17, 2025 04:06 AM (CPS7C)

7 Huh.

I always thought "British spelling" was the official spelling of Canadian English anyways.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 04:07 AM (06Hmj)

8 Good for Texas!
We bought a spare 30-something-inch dumb tv last year because of the whole Winston Smith's telescreen thing.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:09 AM (Cjt/F)

9 5 >>>Initial disclosure indicated that 4500 customers were affected.
This number has since been updated to 34 million.

"More than 4500."
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:05 AM (RuTUS)

Lol.

"We named you after Thomas Jefferson, son."

"But Mom, my name is Robert...."

(stolen from Brian Regan)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 04:09 AM (06Hmj)

10 Wikipedia: "Agadoo" is a novelty song recorded by the British band Black Lace in 1984.

I missed this at the time.
Thankfully.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:10 AM (RuTUS)

11 Korea Zinc, huh?
I'm so old that I remember when we mined stuff in this country !
who knew, right?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:11 AM (Cjt/F)

12 Man from WA reflects on untimely grief, loss during the holiday reason and John 14:1-6 in this Christian devotional:

https://tinyurl.com/bdd79zea

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 04:12 AM (B+8Pw)

13 Maybe he just wants to spell it "poustmaster" and make the Gouvournment beat up anyone who laughs at him for it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 04:15 AM (06Hmj)

14 Local shack is a Texas BBQ joint drive up and pickup. Weights a good 5 pounds of various goodies. Will last me for at least 3 meals. And the lady at the counter calls me sweety All for 16 dollars and they have been around for years. And its in upstate NY well away from NYC (350 miles) Now if only we could saw off NYC and float it out to see and watch it sink, that would be a great. I hope the new mayor of NYC and Kathy Hochul don't screw the state but they probably will.

Posted by: colin at December 17, 2025 04:16 AM (wlQdF)

15 America crossed a frozen river on Christmas to murder some German mercenaries in their sleep for our independence.

Canada just waited out the Empire for a couple centuries until it collapsed, and then Asked Nicely.

I'm not sure which one is more brutal, to be honest.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 04:18 AM (06Hmj)

16 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 17, 2025 04:18 AM (sAmhv)

17 Baby bunnies think Golden Retriever is their mom:

https://tinyurl.com/msuhj5kp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 04:18 AM (B+8Pw)

18 14 degrees here this morning

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 04:20 AM (Ia/+0)

19 School help lift boys spirit after tragic accident:

https://tinyurl.com/2s3c5prb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 04:22 AM (B+8Pw)

20 14 Local shack is a Texas BBQ joint drive up and pickup. Weights a good 5 pounds of various goodies.
Posted by: colin at December 17, 2025 04:16 AM (wlQdF)

Yum. Coleslaw, taters of some sort?

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:23 AM (RuTUS)

21 36 and clear on the island.
6am starts kinda suck, but, I like getting home in daylight.

Posted by: Accomack at December 17, 2025 04:25 AM (GbONR)

22 Re : Commodore 64 -

I'm never sure what the point of retro is sometimes. I love a bit of nostalgia, especially retro computing as someone who rode the wave of new home computing as a kid, but I'm not sure what the point of this is.

Why create hardware to run things that you can run on a free emulator? I don't think people want to choose playing 8 bit games for anything other than the nostalgia factor. I don't think there would be much interest in an equivalent 8 bit game that runs on an xbox.

Posted by: Political Mcguffin at December 17, 2025 04:26 AM (8x4B6)

23 My first computer was a C64. Disk drive, printer and modem (300 bit). I tried the emulator and didn't really enjoy it. It was fun for about an hour, and that was it.

Posted by: colin at December 17, 2025 04:38 AM (wlQdF)

24 I think some of the love for things like the Commodore 64 is less nostalgia for the technology but instead nostalgia for something I was really good at when I was young.

Posted by: Wally at December 17, 2025 04:38 AM (R+nQW)

25 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 27 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, with a high somewhere in the low 40s predicted. It is supposed to rain on Friday, which I hope will wash away the snow still on the ground.

The usual 3 hours of work ahead.

Took a quick look at the stories Ace posted yesterday. I see the impotent mouth-flapping from the usual suspects in lieu of action. As I live in Maskachusetts, my vote has already been stolen and I have no representation in DC, so midterm 'voting' would be a useless enterprise anyway, but even if it weren't, I see absolutely no reason to vote GOP.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 04:38 AM (ufSfZ)

26 25 Maskachusetts
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 04:38 AM (ufSfZ)

heh
I mean, not, but.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:40 AM (RuTUS)

27 The current senators are Democrats Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey.

*shudder*

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:41 AM (RuTUS)

28 R. I. P. Gil Gerard, aka, Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century.

Bummer, Buck.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 04:44 AM (QVuuq)

29 eh, the point is, they think it's cool, interesting, fun, whatever.
people are different. difference of opinion is what makes horse races.
I try real hard not to judge, just because I don't get the kick.

I've gotten really hard-line on this, lately, because I enjoy ham radio, which is apparently so pointless and fucked-up that some people feel perfectly okay about shitting on it and think that that is funny.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:44 AM (Cjt/F)

30 oh, the first half was re: 22, above.

the rest was me, venting. sorry. big issue for me, here in the season of Airing of Grievances.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:47 AM (Cjt/F)

31 Current representatives
As of January 2025:

1st district: Richard Neal (D) (since 1989; 36 years ago)
2nd district: Jim McGovern (D) (since 1997; 28 years ago)
3rd district: Lori Trahan (D) (since 2019; 6 years ago)
4th district: Jake Auchincloss (D) (since 2021; 4 years ago)
5th district: Katherine Clark (D) (since 2013; 12 years ago)
6th district: Seth Moulton (D) (since 2015; 10 years ago)
7th district: Ayanna Pressley (D) (since 2019; 6 years ago)
8th district: Stephen F. Lynch (D) (since 2001; 24 years ago)
9th district: Bill Keating (D) (since 2011; 14 years ago)

man oh man

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:47 AM (RuTUS)

32 Evening and morning on this Woden's Day to you late toilers and insomaniacals! I'm among the latter group. For some reason I snapped awake about 3:20, out of a dream that did not seem like a dream about Miss Linda coming over, moving around in my living room without turning on a light, then sliding into my bathroom for a shower -- still without turning on a light. I could have sworn I was awake for that, but I guess not. Weirdness indeed.

Anyhoo: I'm up, sipping coffee, with Stirling zooming about like an SR-71 Blackbird. Not sure where Dagny is.

55 F. here, almost no wind, so I plan to work out in a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 04:48 AM (wzUl9)

33 Priest became masked wrestler to help fund orphanage:

https://tinyurl.com/ycfbsns7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 04:49 AM (Yl2Ob)

34 Good morning! It's a very pleasant 57 out on the patio here in Cowtown and headed for the mid 60s later this afternoon. Gotta take the pups in for a bath and a haircut at lunch so a visit to the driving range might be on the schedule. And it looks like there's gonna be plenty of extra work to do between now and March which means increased funding for spring landscaping.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 17, 2025 04:49 AM (3Ope8)

35 man oh man
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:47 AM (RuTUS)

Last prominent Republican in office was... oh, who was that guy. Drawing a blank. Shiny teeth. Newsomesque hair. Never accomplished much of anything except for something to do with foreigners coming here to slide down a ski slope on their ass....

Oh well. It'll come to me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 04:50 AM (06Hmj)

36 Maskachusetts
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025
*
heh
I mean, not, but.
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025

***
MP4 has his Maskachusetts, I have my Lousy-ana.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 04:50 AM (wzUl9)

37 35 man oh man
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:47 AM (RuTUS)

Last prominent Republican in office was... oh, who was that guy. Drawing a blank. Shiny teeth. Newsomesque hair. Never accomplished much of anything except for something to do with foreigners coming here to slide down a ski slope on their ass....

Oh well. It'll come to me.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 04:50 AM (06Hmj)

Repress the Bad Thoughts!

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:50 AM (RuTUS)

38 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 17, 2025 04:50 AM (2Ez/1)

39 LOL headline over at DM:
"Trump aide reveals the exact moment they realized Vanity Fair profile was a terrible idea: 'We’re all going to get fired' "

srsly, who the f thought that was a good idea? they should all be fired, preferably from a trebuchet "to encourage the others"

*spit*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:51 AM (Cjt/F)

40 I'm probably the target audience for the C64 Ultimate. I didn't know I wanted it till I saw it just now. No, I can't justify it. It's like I was bitten by a spider who's venom makes serotonin flood my brain so that I'm docile and happy while it eats me.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 17, 2025 04:52 AM (CPS7C)

41 oh, and Pixy? something you might find interesting?

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:53 AM (Cjt/F)

42 srsly, who the f thought that was a good idea? they should all be fired, preferably from a trebuchet "to encourage the others"

*spit*
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:51 AM (Cjt/F)

Oh, pish. No one in the White House is saying "we're all gonna be fired". 100% certain that's a fabricated quote.

What did they accomplish? They got the newsfaces talking about Literally Nothing again. They disseminated the message that "Yes, yes indeed, we are Coming For You". I'm not overly fussed about any of that.

I'm sick to death of all these people who want me dead making a living tut tutting me for not having the correct Feels about other people they want dead.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 04:54 AM (06Hmj)

43 The Movies! channel is off air, so I've got a Barnaby Jones episode from 1974 on. This show has been running on MeTV for at least five solid years, maybe longer. Time for something new(er). Or older. They used to run 77 Sunset Strip at 3 am for quite a while before Mr. Jones seized the time slot.

My local Fox outlet has their "news" starting at four, so I can get an update on the weather.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 04:54 AM (wzUl9)

44 eh, you may be right, W-o

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:57 AM (Cjt/F)

45 The latest goofbally-ness from Da Swamp: The city is talking about erecting a *permanent* gate at the entrance to Bourbon St., where the terror attack took place this past January 1. "18 permanent swing gates to be installed along Bourbon Street from Canal to St. Ann streets" -- which is nearly half the length of the thoroughfare.

I've said for years the city, which for decades has been frantically catering to tourists instead of locals, was going to erect a big shiny gate at that point and charge people to enter. Looks like they've found an excuse to do it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 05:00 AM (wzUl9)

46 some good (and some bad) guesses in the comments here:

LB
@beyondreasdoubt
5h
Ms. Wiles didn't just fall off the turnip truck. She's an experienced and successful woman who has been in the business for a long time. There is no way she didn't know there was a risk of malevolent framing when sitting down with Vanity Fair. The question, of course, is why do it, then?

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:02 AM (RuTUS)

47 Bears in zoo figure out how to make a seesaw from some limbs. You can watch video-if you want to by going to the YouTube site:

https://tinyurl.com/4h756ajk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 05:03 AM (Yl2Ob)

48 The Movies! channel is off air, so I've got a Barnaby Jones episode from 1974 on.

Those Quinn Martin shows never did anything for me, although watching The Streets of San Francisco is a time machine back to the Tony Bennett days.

I did enjoy Cannon, because, like me, William Conrad always did the fat man's hands-in-the-pockets-to-keep-the-pants-from-falling run whenever he chased a suspect.

Back to work.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 05:05 AM (ufSfZ)

49 I may have made my coffee too strong this morning. It needs sweetener, which is usual, and milk, which is not. Whew.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 05:06 AM (wzUl9)

50 Revolver News has a clip of 2 women police officers wrestling with a fairly light guy and can't control him at all. Finally a large Black guy comes over and helps them put him down.

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 05:06 AM (Ia/+0)

51 This:

Rubric Marlin
@RubricMarlin
15h
Presumably Trump told her to do the interview. Why, I don’t know, but he gives interviews to anyone.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:07 AM (RuTUS)

52 I've said for years the city, which for decades has been frantically catering to tourists instead of locals, was going to erect a big shiny gate at that point and charge people to enter. Looks like they've found an excuse to do it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 05:00 AM (wzUl9)

Bring back Storyville.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 05:07 AM (ufSfZ)

53 44 eh, you may be right, W-o
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:57 AM (Cjt/F)

it's all so frustrating. Of course we want Our Team to look like the protagonist in a good movie, never making a misstep, always looking like a badass, always being one step ahead of the Bad Guys. But that isn't possible without everything being scripted and workshopped to death and going through twenty takes and copious editing. In reality we just have a bunch of people we can only hope don't want us quite as dead as the mutants they're up against, who explicitly and vociferously want us dead. So I'm more or less at the point where if a story is not about an actual story, and entirely about What I'm Supposed To Feel About What We Say That Your Guy Said, I assume that the people pushing the Feels are manipulative scumbags and I should probably, to be safe, feel the opposite.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:07 AM (06Hmj)

54
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 17, 2025 05:11 AM (tljrc)

55 Of course Coupang's robust security systems immediately detected the data breach that impacted about 90% of the adult population of Korea.

Just kidding.

It went undetected for 5 months and the only reason they knew about it was a customer inquired about unusual activity in his or her account.

Undisclosed in the article is whether or not North Korea smugly noted in their propaganda that something like this could never happen there.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 05:12 AM (HTCU3)

56 And this:

David M. Drucker
@DavidMDrucker
16h
From the perspective of GOP politics in the Trump era, there's an immense amount of political utility in getting a Vanity Fair spread and then using the piece itself to attack the press. Hardly takes a genius to understand that.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:13 AM (RuTUS)

57 No plans today for me. Wash clothes, grocery shop, take a walk. Went to Mt Vernon yesterday. GW has a lovely place. Sort of a mini vacation this week. I have one extra night off. Don't have to go back to work till Friday night. I do work all of Christmas (Eve and Day+Boxing day and whatever the 27th is) and which is a bummer.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 17, 2025 05:14 AM (sAmhv)

58 I think part of it at least fits in with the growing "meta" of demonstrating almost Socratically that all these people are lying to us about everything and have been for years.

It started with the judo-flip of their term "Fake News", which Trump seized on like a starving wolf wandered into the meat section of the local grocery store.

We've had a slew of lawsuits, successful or not, forcing various newsface agencies to admit publicly and officially that their pants are, indeed, combustible.

Latest one is the BBC fiasco of slobberknockingly disingenuous editing concerning The Thing We Were All Required To Care About for a solid half of a decade.

I have to imagine this interview was just another little combat patrol on this very same front.

Telling everyone that these people are liars gets you nowhere. Showing everyone, maybe, might.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:16 AM (06Hmj)

59 Watched musical interlude and have no clue what that was

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 05:17 AM (Ia/+0)

60 And I just don't give a crap about the whole Trump/Vanity Fair thing or what he said about Reiner. If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything. I try and succeed, occasionally, in doing that. Better over all for me. But neither of those guys (Reiner and Trump) did or do that. shrugs Imperfect world with imperfect people.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 17, 2025 05:18 AM (sAmhv)

61 From imaginary-land (apparently) I greet you all.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:19 AM (O7YUW)

62 If you don't want a SmartTV it's getting more and more difficult to find a TV without the internet connection.

However, if you're looking for a smaller size, you can buy computer monitors without internet connections and use one of those instead. They are usually topping out at 32" but you can get some up to 37".

A TV manufacturer could probably make decent sales if they sold several 'dumb' models these days. If somebody wants to add streaming to it they could always add a streaming box, but you're opening yourself up to the same privacy problems with those.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:19 AM (6ydKt)

63 Eh, it's one, single Vanity Fair article. This, too, shall pass.

I'm betting on PDT.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:23 AM (RuTUS)

64 Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 17, 2025 05:18 AM (sAmhv

Very true.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 05:23 AM (2sfNr)

65 In a perverse kind of way, right now is the perfect time to be destabilizing and dismantling the Newsface Industrial Complex. They've just spent a solid decade or more firing everyone who knows how to psy-op, and hiring a bunch of theater kids who are too obsessed with their own crotches to know how to even write in complete sentences. You'd have never busted the Palace Guard of the Krankheit era just by mocking them. Hell, thirty years ago Bernie Goldberg started to gently, politely insinuate that maybe the NIC wasn't quite as objective as they made out, and they crucified the poor bastard.

Now? It's pretty much the conventional wisdom amongst people who aren't network or cable news addicts that the Newsfaces' shit is all retarded and they do, actually, kinda talk like fags.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:24 AM (06Hmj)

66 It is cold outside, I won't be happy until May
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 05:25 AM (Ia/+0)

67 @66/Skip: I can dress warm enough to cope with the cold. What I don't like is all the slip-sliding around on surfaces that should have been plowed or shoveled, but weren't.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:28 AM (O7YUW)

68 A TV without internet is effectively either a computer monitor, or you're watching satellite TV or cable.

Satellite is for people who eat with their hands and arrange their kids' marriages. Cable is for comatose people in hospitals.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:28 AM (06Hmj)

69 I had a C64 as a kid.

Problem is the only thing I manged to do with it is play 'Pole Position' on a 13" CRT TV.

Then I got a Nintendo and never looked back.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:28 AM (6ydKt)

70 Actor David Suchet ( "Poirot") reads Psalm 3-encouragement that God is our glory and the lifter of our head:

https://tinyurl.com/yyks6sbp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 05:29 AM (2sfNr)

71 @32/Wolfus: "Anyhoo: I'm up, sipping coffee, with Stirling zooming about like an SR-71 Blackbird. Not sure where Dagny is. "

Wisely staying out of the flight path?

Thanks for the "furry thugs" update!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:29 AM (O7YUW)

72 !!!

Townhall.com
@townhallcom
11h
"Some webpages for students and faculty have been taken down..."

BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT: "I know nothing about webpages being taken down."

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:30 AM (RuTUS)

73 Satellite is for people who eat with their hands and arrange their kids' marriages. Cable is for comatose people in hospitals.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:28 AM (06Hmj)

*looks at his Dish box and wonders where he can get a good falafel*

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:32 AM (6ydKt)

74 Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:23 AM (RuTUS

Yes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 05:32 AM (2sfNr)

75 The tower my cell phone and home internet hits from where I live went from providing 300 plus mbs to 1 mbs on Monday. That cured all concerns about my Smart TV spying on me. On the upside Verizon did provide very good information about when the outage occurred and when it would be fixed which they accomplished about 8 hours earlier than they thought it would be. On the downside the text message I was supposed to get telling me it was fixed arrived 12 hours later which I found rather amusing.

1 mbs. How did we survive in the dark ages?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 05:34 AM (HTCU3)

76 BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT: "I know nothing about webpages being taken down."

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:30 AM (RuTUS)

I'm starting to thunk this college president never leaves her office except to cash her check.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:35 AM (6ydKt)

77 I mean, if "They" were going to come for us and kick in our door over something they caught us watching on our Big Brother Telescreen, it'd probably be for my wife.

"Man. This chick is, like, reaaallllly into murder, isn't she?"

"But... but I want to dismantle the entire federal government and strip everything back to the bill of rights and the original US Code?"

"Oh, who doesn't. We're here for Murder Girl, get out of the way, bub."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:36 AM (06Hmj)

78 1 mbs. How did we survive in the dark ages?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 05:34 AM (HTCU3)

We'd start a download, cook and eat dinner, watch a few shows on TV, go to bed, and wake up to find we only had a few more hours left until we could listen to that new Nickleback CD off of Napster.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:38 AM (6ydKt)

79 76 BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT: "I know nothing about webpages being taken down."

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:30 AM (RuTUS)

I'm starting to thunk this college president never leaves her office except to cash her check.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:35 AM (6ydKt)

IIRC, in the first interview she gave, she said that she had just arrived back in town. From somewhere Stateside; like, Philadelphia? DC?

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:38 AM (RuTUS)

80 What's Vanity Fair?

Posted by: Most people at December 17, 2025 05:39 AM (2Ez/1)

81 @aghamiilton29
AG retweeted
Rabbi Poupko
@RabbiPoupko
Dec 15
HE STEPPED IN TO PROTECT A LITTLE GIRL

27-year-old Dan Elkayam from France was killed in the Sydney terror attack.

Dan was a young French Jewish engineer from Le Bourget.

Dan loved playing soccer and was proud to represent France and the Jewish community at the 2022 Maccabiah International Tournament.

On the first night of Hanukkah, like so many young Jews far from home, he came to bond with his people at the Chanukkah Menorah lighting.

As the bullets began flying, Dan rushed to protect a little girl with his own body and succumbed to the terrorists' bullets.

May his memory be a blessing.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:40 AM (RuTUS)

82 80 What's Vanity Fair?
Posted by: Most people at December 17, 2025 05:39 AM (2Ez/1)

it's a Thackeray novel that broadly mimics the themes of Anna Karenina.

But that's not important right now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:40 AM (06Hmj)

83
@aghamiilton29 --> @aghamilton29

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:41 AM (RuTUS)

84 77 I mean, if "They" were going to come for us and kick in our door over something they caught us watching on our Big Brother Telescreen, it'd probably be for my wife.

"Man. This chick is, like, reaaallllly into murder, isn't she?"

"But... but I want to dismantle the entire federal government and strip everything back to the bill of rights and the original US Code?"

"Oh, who doesn't. We're here for Murder Girl, get out of the way, bub."

Posted by: Warai-otoko

'We think you've watched just enough cat video's Mr Puddleglum'.

'What? Oh, I'm sorry, I thought this was America!! What about my rights, man!!!'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 17, 2025 05:41 AM (sAmhv)

85 82 80 What's Vanity Fair?
Posted by: Most people at December 17, 2025 05:39 AM (2Ez/1)

it's a Thackeray novel that broadly mimics the themes of Anna Karenina.

But that's not important right now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:40 AM (06Hmj)

; )

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:41 AM (RuTUS)

86 @75/Alteria Pilgram: "1 mbs. How did we survive in the dark ages?"

I remember 300 bps. That was slooooooow.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:41 AM (O7YUW)

87 "I'm starting to thunk this college president never leaves her office except to cash her check."

Stop putting women in charge.

Posted by: They can't handle it at December 17, 2025 05:42 AM (2Ez/1)

88 Almost summoned the Italicans again. Hurray for extra closure tags after my name.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:42 AM (O7YUW)

89 And stop calling me surely!

Posted by: Vanity Fair at December 17, 2025 05:44 AM (2Ez/1)

90 @81/m: "May his memory be a blessing."

John 15:13 : Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:44 AM (O7YUW)

91 What's Vanity Fair?
Posted by: Most people at December 17, 2025 05:39 AM (2Ez/1)

it's a Thackeray novel that broadly mimics the themes of Anna Karenina.

But that's not important right now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025

***
I've been using that joke on Miss Linda for a while. Yesterday a delivery truck was parked outside the coffee shop, and she says, "What's that truck?"

Me: "It's a large vehicle, normally with more than four wheels, used to transport cargo over long or short distances . . . but that's not important right now."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 05:44 AM (wzUl9)

92 I remember 300 bps. That was slooooooow.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

My first modem was 28 kbs. Or maybe it was 14.4 kbs. Or maybe that was the amount of RAM in my first PC. The truth being I really can't recall because that was back the dark ages when we use Sears catalog pages for toilet paper.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 05:44 AM (HTCU3)

93
76 BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT: "I know nothing about webpages being taken down."

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:30 AM (RuTUS)

I'm starting to thunk this college president never leaves her office except to cash her check.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:35 AM (6ydKt)

-------

There are fundraising luncheons also.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 17, 2025 05:45 AM (kf4RM)

94 Me: "It's a large vehicle, normally with more than four wheels, used to transport cargo over long or short distances . . . but that's not important right now."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 05:44 AM (wzUl9)

My wife made an absolute banger of a dad-joke the other day, then immediately looked at me in wide eyed horror and said "What have you done to me?!?!?!?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:45 AM (06Hmj)

95 Good morning, everyone. It's a bit of a sad day over here. Kroger had a vet appointment yesterday as the limp he'd been dealing with got a lot worse over the previous 24 hours. They did an x-ray and it looks like he has osteosarcoma. We're waiting for the radiologist to look things over for a second opinion but it's not looking very good.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 05:46 AM (jjoN6)

96 93 76 BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT: "I know nothing about webpages being taken down."
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:30 AM (RuTUS)

I'm starting to thunk this college president never leaves her office except to cash her check.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:35 AM (6ydKt)

There are fundraising luncheons also.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 17, 2025 05:45 AM (kf4RM)

And award ceremonies.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:47 AM (RuTUS)

97 Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 05:46 A

Poor Kroger!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 05:47 AM (WFtAr)

98 /Alteria Pilgram: "1 mbs. How did we survive in the dark ages?"
*
I remember 300 bps. That was slooooooow.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025

***
I installed my first modem in my 8088 Compuadd PC in '89 or so, to upload my COBOL programs to the school mainframe -- which would compile it and print out the result. Then the next day at work, I'd pick up the printout and see just how many errors I'd made. Fortunately, when you fixed one error in COBOL, that often cleared up four others.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 05:48 AM (wzUl9)

99 My wife made an absolute banger of a dad-joke the other day, then immediately looked at me in wide eyed horror and said "What have you done to me?!?!?!?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I would sleep in the car with the windows up and the doors locked for the next few months. She seems rather schooled in the art of murder given the TV habits you mentioned.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 05:49 AM (HTCU3)

100 100

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:49 AM (RuTUS)

101 94 Me: "It's a large vehicle, normally with more than four wheels, used to transport cargo over long or short distances . . . but that's not important right now."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 05:44 AM (wzUl9)

My wife made an absolute banger of a dad-joke the other day, then immediately looked at me in wide eyed horror and said "What have you done to me?!?!?!?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:45 AM (06Hmj)

Tell us the joke!

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:50 AM (RuTUS)

102 I think College Presidents are not known for doing much of anything except to raise money for the school. I don't know that it had much to do with having a woman in charge in this particular case. They should be grilling whoever is in charge of security over there.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 05:50 AM (WFtAr)

103 G'morning, all.

I see that a Professor at MIT was murdered in his home on Monday.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419454

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 17, 2025 05:50 AM (Ytdv9)

104 "Hospital?"

"It's a large building with sick people, doctors, and nurses . . . but that's not important right now."

(I think that was an actual joke in the movie)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 05:50 AM (wzUl9)

105 @92/Alteria Pilgram: I remember the modem years all too well. We are well rid of those things.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:51 AM (O7YUW)

106 There's a 1955 movie with Dana Andrews and Piper Laurie named Smoke Signal where Dana Andrews is explaining something to a captain and after he finishes he says: "But that's not important right now."

I laugh every time I hear it (Encore Western had it on a lot last month).

I wouldn't be surprised if that's where Airplane got the line.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:51 AM (6ydKt)

107 Poor Kroger!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Osteo hates greyhounds for some reason as this was what took the life of one of my other dogs last year. I'm certain the radiologist is going to agree with the doctor but I'd rather have the second opinion than agonize if we made the right choice.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 05:52 AM (jjoN6)

108 Tell us the joke!
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:50 AM (RuTUS)

I can't even remember it! I think it was a riff on a poorly worded sign going in to a store somewhere or something. I do remember that the people behind us laughed at it...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:53 AM (06Hmj)

109 108

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 05:53 AM (HTCU3)

110 Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 05:52 AM (jjoN6)

Second opinion always sounds like a good idea. It must be very hard to be attached to the greyhounds and lose so many over the years.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 05:54 AM (WFtAr)

111 108 Tell us the joke!
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:50 AM (RuTUS)

I can't even remember it! I think it was a riff on a poorly worded sign going in to a store somewhere or something. I do remember that the people behind us laughed at it...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:53 AM (06Hmj)

hahahahahaha

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:55 AM (RuTUS)

112
Good morning, Hordians.

Mr. Finn is a house dog whilst we medicate him with antibiotics to try to stem whatever is ailing him. I heard him horking a few times last night and this morning, but he hasn't coughed up any blood. Also, even though he's 10 years old, he doesn't look or act like a dog on the way out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 05:57 AM (tgvbd)

113
I can't even remember it! I think it was a riff on a poorly worded sign going in to a store somewhere or something. I do remember that the people behind us laughed at it...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:53 AM (06Hmj)

The one I saw many years ago was "For Faster Service, Drive Thru Window".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 05:58 AM (tgvbd)

114 President Trump has "completely surrounded" Venezuela by ordering a naval blockade. When did Venezuela become an island?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 06:01 AM (HTCU3)

115 The one I saw many years ago was "For Faster Service, Drive Thru Window".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 05:58 AM (tgvbd)

Signs are constricted spaces, and sometimes you can't fit all the words, which is unfortunate when a three-letter word like "use" would completely clear up any unfortunate misunderstandings.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:03 AM (6ydKt)

116 114 President Trump has "completely surrounded" Venezuela by ordering a naval blockade. When did Venezuela become an island?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 06:01 AM (HTCU3)

I guess it could be done if he sent a fleet up the Orinoco river.

*Sail Away, Sail Away, Sail Away*

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:06 AM (6ydKt)

117 76 BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT: "I know nothing about webpages being taken down."
---
Every university has an IT Help Desk. Maybe start there...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 17, 2025 06:10 AM (ESVrU)

118 *Sail Away, Sail Away, Sail Away*

I happen to like that song, even though it's ridiculously overplayed.

I also, for no reason I could articulate, think Enya would be a very strange woman to be married to.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 06:11 AM (ufSfZ)

119 I remember driving past the original "GIANT / DICK'S" sign from the meme in my town when it first went up.

It wasn't long before they reversed the order of the sign.

(Giant is a local grocery store chain)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 06:12 AM (06Hmj)

120 118 *Sail Away, Sail Away, Sail Away*

I happen to like that song, even though it's ridiculously overplayed.

I also, for no reason I could articulate, think Enya would be a very strange woman to be married to.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 06:11 AM (ufSfZ)

I like it, too.
Enya has a beautiful voice.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:13 AM (6ydKt)

121 Good morning tech fans.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 17, 2025 06:14 AM (WPL6O)

122 @41/sock_rat_eez: "https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/"

And people wonder why I scatter things around different dissociated services so much.

Poor guy. I'll keep that post open and monitor it over the upcoming days to see if he gets any relief from Apple.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 06:16 AM (O7YUW)

123 Venezuela has made the fundamental error of pissing off all of its direct neighbors.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 06:19 AM (06Hmj)

124
114 President Trump has "completely surrounded" Venezuela by ordering a naval blockade. When did Venezuela become an island?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 06:01 AM (HTCU3

----

To the east is Guyana, which Maduro has threatened with invasion, and regards hiim as an enemy. US troops stationed there.

To the west, Columbia, despite the anti-American ranting of its drug-addled communist president, doesn't need the trouble of taking on the US.q

To the south -- nothing much. Mountains, few roads.

No way to transport oil, their only remaining source of revenue aside from narcotics, without tankers, which are effectively blockaded.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 17, 2025 06:19 AM (kf4RM)

125
Brown's prex is being deliberately and calculatingly obtuse. But the more she talks like this, the more the perception grows that there's something she doesn't want to come out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 06:19 AM (tgvbd)

126 Brown's prex is being deliberately and calculatingly obtuse. But the more she talks like this, the more the perception grows that there's something she doesn't want to come out.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 06:19 AM (tgvbd)

How does one make it to such a lofty position when their strategic instincts allow for their final defensible position to be "No, no, I really am that stupid"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 06:21 AM (06Hmj)

127 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 06:19 AM (tgvbd)

Yes,; if they're removing faculty and student pages it's because they're covering up for faculty and students with some very dark thoughts about Christians and Jews and Israel.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 06:22 AM (oT1li)

128 They can't claim they're worried about "copycats" because this mutant's body of work is indistinguishable from official university policy that is not only celebrated but enforced.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 06:23 AM (06Hmj)

129 which means increased funding for spring landscaping.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 17, 2025 04:49 AM (3Ope

The landscapers are coming today! They are doing some leveling, spreading the dirt we bought last spring before he broke his arm, laying a paver path, putting out some sod and maybe doing some tree trimming.
Then- they are re-working my garden extensively: new beds, new path, re-setting the little patio. I can't wait, I love my little plot.

Posted by: sal at December 17, 2025 06:23 AM (f+FmA)

130 Delurks

Okay problem here. The site is all tiny. All the words are quite small on Samsung phone. I have too read it landscape.

Any answers out there from people more knowledgeable then myself?

Posted by: Dandalo at December 17, 2025 06:24 AM (3QsZU)

131 Was there a President who was fired after the outrageous anti semetism on their campus - which she claimed to know nothing about - after the attack on Israel on October 7th?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 06:24 AM (oT1li)

132 Oh, brave browser, and chrome did same.

Posted by: Dandalo at December 17, 2025 06:25 AM (3QsZU)

133 124

To the east is Guyana, which Maduro has threatened with invasion, and regards hiim as an enemy. US troops stationed there.

To the west, Columbia, despite the anti-American ranting of its drug-addled communist president, doesn't need the trouble of taking on the US.q

To the south -- nothing much. Mountains, few roads.

No way to transport oil, their only remaining source of revenue aside from narcotics, without tankers, which are effectively blockaded.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 17, 2025 06:19 AM (kf4RM)

To the north -- the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:26 AM (RuTUS)

134 Posted by: sal at December 17, 2025 06:23 AM (f+FmA

Congratulations! I will be nice for you to a have a garden respite come Spring.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 06:28 AM (oT1li)

135 Good morning, All.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 06:30 AM (tlviZ)

136 It would not be easy to be the Providence Police Chief at this time. However:

Greg Price
@greg_price11
12h
Providence Police Chief: "The video that we showed you came from inside the building."

RI Attorney General: "It's from the outside of the building."

Police Chief: "Both inside and outside. I'm sorry! Just outside."

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:31 AM (RuTUS)

137 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 17, 2025 06:10 AM (ESVrU)

Perfessor, FYI: The Federalist has an article on Notable books of 2025.

https://tinyurl.com/2x6wh79n

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 17, 2025 06:32 AM (FIlGS)

138 130 Delurks

Okay problem here. The site is all tiny. All the words are quite small on Samsung phone. I have too read it landscape.

Any answers out there from people more knowledgeable then myself?

Posted by: Dandalo at December 17, 2025 06:24 AM (3QsZU)

Pixy mentioned last week he's noticed something happening.

Basically, your phone is picking up the Desktop version of the site instead of the Mobile version.

If there's a way to switch between the two in your browser, that's an option.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:32 AM (6ydKt)

139 Nice.

Frank McCormick | Educator
@CBHeresy
15h
No matter how many ‘likes’ you get, you’ll still have to answer to God.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:38 AM (RuTUS)

140 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 17, 2025 06:38 AM (bQ4nt)

141
https://thenewneo.com

Friends were not all that surprised:

quote:

Rob Reiner’s son Nick was notorious for being violent, and those around him “instantly knew’’ he was the one who allegedly murdered his parents, friends, and neighbors, told The Post on Monday.

“This is not the first time their son has been violent,’’ a longtime neighbor of the victims said of Nick Reiner, 32, who is charged with fatally slitting the throats of his parents in the family’s Los Angeles mansion. …

A former classmate of Nick’s told The Post that the suspect — who had been in and out of rehab since age 15 — has “always been troubled’’ and that she “instantly knew it was him’’ when she heard the news.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:41 AM (RuTUS)

142
Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 17, 2025 06:38 AM (bQ4nt)

_________

Did you bring donuts?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 06:42 AM (tgvbd)

143 tcn in AK is having shoulder surgery today. Please keep tcn and her surgical team in prayer as well as her husband for patience as he takes over a lot of duties for her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 06:42 AM (Yl2Ob)

144
If there's a way to switch between the two in your browser, that's an option.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:32 AM (6ydKt)

__________

Tried that. Doesn't help. It's a site problem, not a phone problem.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 06:43 AM (tgvbd)

145 I like it, too.
Enya has a beautiful voice.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:13 AM (6ydKt)

Here is a live performance of "My! My! Time Flies," from her album And Winter Came:

https://tinyurl.com/bddddwrc

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 06:44 AM (ufSfZ)

146 @130/Dandalo: "The site is all tiny. All the words are quite small on Samsung phone. I have too read it landscape."

Yep. Landscape mode. Or pinch and grab and zoom in a bit, but that's pretty unworkable.

@Pixy: I'm seeing this too, and landscape mode is the only way to reasonably deal with it. The other day you said you were going to go skulking around in the CSS code. Could you look at this too while you're in there?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 06:44 AM (O7YUW)

147 Eyes not focusing

Air inside is so dry

Eyedrops!

Ahhhhh

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 06:44 AM (YCq3A)

148
A former classmate of Nick’s told The Post that the suspect — who had been in and out of rehab since age 15 — has “always been troubled’’ and that she “instantly knew it was him’’ when she heard the news.
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:41 AM (RuTUS)

___________

Don't know anything about the family but there are some people who are no damn good regardless of how they're raised. Sounds like an exorcist should have been called in.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 06:47 AM (tgvbd)

149 147 Eyes not focusing

Air inside is so dry

Eyedrops!

Ahhhhh
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 06:44 AM (YCq3A)

Hydrate!

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:47 AM (RuTUS)

150 Did you bring donuts?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
----------------
Sorry, no. Got a late start this morning.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 17, 2025 06:49 AM (bQ4nt)

151
When the site went Desktop on Chrome, I tried Brave and it looked fine for a while but that too has gone Desktop.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 06:50 AM (tgvbd)

152 Tried that. Doesn't help. It's a site problem, not a phone problem.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 06:43 AM (tgvbd)

Could be that browsers have added something in updates that screwed up Responsive Design site loading.

As in; it was working fine for years, and then the developers did something that screwed up everything down the line.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:54 AM (6ydKt)

153 I've gotten really hard-line on this, lately, because I enjoy ham radio, which is apparently so pointless and fucked-up that some people feel perfectly okay about shitting on it and think that that is funny.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

--
Gam radio seems like fun and from the outside seems a lot about reaching out to other humans and being in a community

Does not seem pointless at all to me

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 06:55 AM (eZ5tL)

154 Satellite is for people who eat with their hands and arrange their kids' marriages.

*Elon Musk has entered the chat

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 06:55 AM (T+ixL)

155 As in; it was working fine for years, and then the developers did something that screwed up everything down the line.

Translation: "You code monkeys better do something by the end of the year if you want your bonuses."

Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 06:55 AM (jjoN6)

156 Poor kid was probably passed around like a joint at Woodstock. Hollywood has a very long sordid history, right from the start. They used to be a little better about keeping stuff under wraps.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 17, 2025 06:55 AM (Tt+ej)

157 We're waiting for the radiologist to look things over for a second opinion but it's not looking very good.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 05:46 AM (jjoN6)

------

Praying for good news.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 06:58 AM (GgH4p)

158 @redsteeze
Stephen L. Miller retweeted

ShipofTheseus
@JewishSpaceLazr
15h
Prof. Loureiro, an MIT professor researching nuclear fusion, was Jewish and had voiced a strong defense of Israel on social media. He lived in a quiet residential neighborhood where shootings - esp multiple times in his own foyer - are rare. This needs to be investigated deeply.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:58 AM (RuTUS)

159 Apropos of the C64, my current fascination is the Quark Linux SOC I picked up, inside of its 3d printed case it measures 1.5x1.75x.75 inches has a oled monitor, USB, WiFi, Bluetooth and has enough horsepower to emulate a c64 and serve the games on webpage.

Picked it up for 50 bucks and it’s a blast.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 06:59 AM (XV/Pl)

160 How does one make it to such a lofty position when their strategic instincts allow for their final defensible position to be "No, no, I really am that stupid"?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 06:21 AM (06Hmj)

We have reached the point in our culture where one HAS to be that stupid in order to make it to a lofty position.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 07:00 AM (QS6eO)

161 people in the comments are throwing doubt on this:

158 @redsteeze
Stephen L. Miller retweeted

ShipofTheseus
@JewishSpaceLazr
15h
Prof. Loureiro, an MIT professor researching nuclear fusion, was Jewish and had voiced a strong defense of Israel on social media. He lived in a quiet residential neighborhood where shootings - esp multiple times in his own foyer - are rare. This needs to be investigated deeply.
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:58 AM (RuTUS)

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 07:02 AM (RuTUS)

162 NR Pax, praying for Kroger

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 07:02 AM (DoBxX)

163 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Agalagaldingdong.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 17, 2025 07:02 AM (Bh17p)

164 Praying for good news.
Posted by: JM in Illinois

Thank you. The one consolation is that we're here for him as opposed to it happening while we were on vacation.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 07:02 AM (jjoN6)

165 To the north -- the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:26 AM (RuTUS)

And currently, the US Navy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 07:03 AM (QS6eO)

166 thank you, vmom!

I'm a little bent out of shape because of a few commenters (don't know, consciously avoided knowing who) who very openly feel ... differently.

I know most everyone here is not like that, but once in a while it busts loose inside me ... and yes, I was just thinking how, in its way, that's like yelling back at a troll - you're letting them know that they actually scored a touch. stupid.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 07:03 AM (Cjt/F)

167 I also, for no reason I could articulate, think Enya would be a very strange woman to be married to.
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Being wealthy might help with that.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 17, 2025 07:03 AM (Bh17p)

168
Gam radio seems like fun and from the outside seems a lot about reaching out to other humans and being in a community

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And talking about women's legs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 07:03 AM (tgvbd)

169 "When did Venezuela become an island?"

Careful. It might capsize.

Posted by: Hank Johnson at December 17, 2025 07:03 AM (7aSbN)

170 "L.A. Story" should have gotten an award for most effective use of an Enya song. Twice!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 17, 2025 07:05 AM (Bh17p)

171 Basically, your phone is picking up the Desktop version of the site instead of the Mobile version.

If there's a way to switch between the two in your browser, that's an option.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:32 AM (6ydKt)

I use brave on android an each site can be viewed as normal (mobile) or desktop.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 17, 2025 07:05 AM (gbOdA)

172 @169/"Hank Johnson": *snort*

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 07:05 AM (O7YUW)

173 Watching the pressers following all of these tragedies, I'm struck by how totally incompetent the "leadership" is. It seems like we used to install people who were both talented and competent. Now we have women and men who have absolutely no achievements in life but are really, REALLY proud of their gender studies degree. But they can deflect, deny and blame others with great confidence (with an assist from the propaganda press).

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 17, 2025 07:05 AM (cxFcK)

174 Gam radio seems like fun and from the outside seems a lot about reaching out to other humans and being in a community

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And talking about women's legs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 07:03 AM (tgvbd)
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Betty Grable! Great gams!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 17, 2025 07:06 AM (Bh17p)

175 @171/rhennigantx: That's good news, so how, exactly, do you switch between desktop and mobile on your android based phone?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 07:07 AM (O7YUW)

176
Delurk

Okay problem here. The site is all tiny. All the words are quite small on Samsung phone. I have too read it landscape.

Any answers out there from people more knowledgeable then myself?
Posted by: Dandalo at December 17, 2025 06:24 AM (3QsZU)

For about a week now , the Brave browser on my phone has shown tiny print. I shifted to Edge and the text is larger. I do not understand

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 07:07 AM (Raw4f)

177 Hedley Lamarr: “You said murder twice”
Dem politician: “ I really like murder!”

Posted by: Fenderbender at December 17, 2025 07:07 AM (1FEc1)

178 Local schools are closed today because of wind.

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 07:10 AM (ZxPkt)

179 173 Watching the pressers following all of these tragedies, I'm struck by how totally incompetent the "leadership" is. It seems like we used to install people who were both talented and competent. Now we have women and men who have absolutely no achievements in life but are really, REALLY proud of their gender studies degree. But they can deflect, deny and blame others with great confidence (with an assist from the propaganda press).
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 17, 2025 07:05 AM (cxFcK)

And the president of Brown is paid $3mil/year.

https://www.browndailyherald.com

https://tinyurl.com/5f7xbr8e

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 07:10 AM (RuTUS)

180
We have reached the point in our culture where one HAS to be that stupid in order to make it to a lofty position.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 07:00 AM (QS6eO)

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Youse talkin' about me?

Posted by: Claudine Gay, Harvard at December 17, 2025 07:15 AM (+Z4Ez)

181
JJS

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 17, 2025 07:15 AM (gbOdA)

182 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 07:15 AM (gbOdA)

183 Hoping you're doing ok, Pixy!

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 07:17 AM (RuTUS)

184 I love Commodore 64, no one needs more than 640k to worship me and my fat, soft and moist mammaries!

Love me! Love me! Take my vax! Yeah, Oh yeah!

Posted by: Bill Gates, Tech Weirdo With Huge Man Hooters at December 17, 2025 07:18 AM (m8zKa)

185 via Instapundit:

RIP: Norman Podhoretz, 1930-2025.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 07:20 AM (RuTUS)

186 Thank you for the answer.
Brave is set on mobile, but maybe Pixie will five into the code.

Posted by: Dandalo at December 17, 2025 07:36 AM (tdTJF)

187 * Local schools are closed today because of wind.*

Stop putting women in charge.

Posted by: Timeless truth at December 17, 2025 07:36 AM (7aSbN)

188 186 Thank you for the answer.
Brave is set on mobile, but maybe Pixie will five into the code.
Posted by: Dandalo at December 17, 2025 07:36 AM (tdTJF)

I am not a techie, but, online, when a site is mis-sized, if I grab a corner and pull it out and then in and what have you, the site sometimes resizes to where I want it. I have to do this at Instapundit every time.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 08:55 AM (RuTUS)

189 She's singing about Doof!?

Posted by: GWB at December 17, 2025 09:41 AM (cxcqL)

190 * Local schools are closed today because of wind.*

Stop putting women in charge.

Posted by: Timeless truth at December 17, 2025 07:36 AM (7aSbN)

We've had a power outage since 6 am. How can kids go to school and stare at their phones all day with no power?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 10:00 AM (oMo5x)

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